The Smashing Pumpkins 2024-06-19

June 19, 2024 – Mönchengladbach, DE
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The World Is A Vampire 2024 tour
Date	June 19, 2024
Venue	SparkassenPark
Coordinates	51°10′40″N 6°23′24″E
Location	Mönchengladbach, DE
Venue type	Stadium
Capacity	21,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Kiki Wong, Jack Bates, Katie Cole
Order of bands	Interpol, The Smashing Pumpkins
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June 19, 2024 was The Smashing Pumpkins' first show in Germany since 2019.

Setlist

1. "Atum" (prerecorded) 
2. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
3. "Doomsday Clock" 
4. "Zoo Station" [U2] 
   1. (drum solo)
5. "Today" 
6. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" 
7. "Spellbinding" 
8. "Tonight, Tonight" 
9. "That Which Animates The Spirit" 
10. "Ava Adore" 
11. "Disarm" (acoustic) 
12. "Springtimes" 
13. "Mayonaise" 
14. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
15. "Empires" 
16. "Beguiled" 
17. "1979" 
18. "Birch Grove" 
19. "Gossamer" 
    1. "The Spaniards" (tease) 
20. "Jellybelly" 
21. "Cherub Rock" 
22. "Zero" 
    1. "Love Gun" [Kiss] (tease) 

Banter

(incomplete due to lack of full show source)

Atum Intro
The Everlasting Gaze
> Doomsday Clock
Zoo Station
Today
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
Spellbinding
Tonight, Tonight
That Which Animates the Spirit
Ava Adore
(BC before bridge: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the rock show! Ow!)
Iha: (laughing) Don’t worry, we got more tunes. Here we go.
Disarm (acoustic)
Iha: Miss Katie Cole.
Springtimes
BC: Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much. We know that football is on, so we thank you for being with us tonight.
Iha: I heard they won, two to zero, congrats.
BC: James?
Iha: Yes?
BC: Two-nil, two-nil.
Iha: Two-nil.
BC: Mighty Germany defeating lowly Hungary.
Iha: I’m not gonna get into politics up here. Eh, I’ve -- fine athletes on that field.
BC: Let’s take you back to a time where there were no politics.
Iha: (laughing) Okay.
BC: The wall had come down.
Iha: Yes, yes.
BC: The world was holding hands in peace.
Iha: We went to, uh, see the Super Bowl in East Berlin at a -- at a disused bank, do you remember that?
BC: Yes, with the techno people...
Iha: Yeah, it was--
BC: ...snorting cocaine...
Iha: It was crazy.
BC: ...in their Vicks inhalers.
Iha: It was crazy. They had a safe.
BC: You remember the Vicks inhalers?
Iha: (laughing) Yeah.
BC: The techno people.
Iha: They’re like, “Please play another song, this is terrible when you talk.”
BC: They know how Germans are...because they’re German.
Iha: I don’t know. I don’t know.
BC: Germans love techno, James.
Iha: I’m from, uh -- I’m from the middle of America. I don’t know much.
BC: They get up in the morning, they put techno on.
Iha: Yeah! They’re like, why the fuck not?
BC: They make love to techno.
Iha: Yes! That’s what I would do if I lived here. I-I like it. Hey....
BC: James, let’s take this lovely audience back to 1992.
Iha: No! Let’s go back to techno.
BC: The Super Bowl, of course, influencing this song.
Iha: Okay, alright.
BC: Little song that James and I wrote for the Siamese Dream album.
Mayonaise
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Empires
(BC before Kiki outro solo: Kiki!!)
Beguiled
1979
Birch Grove
Gossamer / The Spaniards
> Jellybelly
Cherub Rock
> Zero
> Love Gun (tease)